SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/9/2018 10:32 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
The Jewish Leaders Interest
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts
28:21-22
Message of the verses: “21 They said to him, "We have neither received letters
from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brethren come here and reported
or spoken anything bad about you. 22 “But we desire to hear from you what your
views are; for concerning this sect, it is known to us that it is spoken
against everywhere."”
I have to say first of all that this
will be a very short SD as we are only looking at the comments, the first
comments that the Jewish leaders of Rome are saying to Paul.
I really can’t understand why it was
that the Sanhedrin had not at least sent a letter to the Jewish leaders in Rome
to tell them something about the charges that they had against Paul, but the
Jewish leaders in Rome say that they have not heard a thing, no letters, and no
one has come to see them. Now we have
learned the problems that Paul had on his way to Rome going by sea in the
winter months, so possibly that is why no one from Jerusalem went to Rome to
talk to their counterparts there. John
MacArthur sites another reason why they may not have heard anything, or at
least did not want to get involved was because ten years earlier they were
temporarily kicked out of Rome for clashing with Christians and so they
probably did not want to get involved again with this “sect.”
Once the Sanhedrin had heard that
the Romans had exonerated Paul, then perhaps they did not want to peruse this
case any longer.
MacArthur concludes this brief
section: “Diplomatically they assured
Paul of their ‘desire to hear from’ him ‘what’ his ‘views’ were. Cautiously, noncommittally, they acknowledged
the obvious: ‘concerning this sect, it
is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere.’ They were not completely ignorant of
Christianity, which had been established in Rome for many years.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: Many of
these same problems still exist in the Jewish world today, as they still don’t
want to hear much about Christianity even though many believers still love them
and reach out to them. I for one have a
great deal of love for the Jewish people.
I have to say that I get excited when I look onto my blog each day to
see what nation has looked at it and I find Israel as one of those nations.
My Steps of Faith for Today: I continue
to ask God to bless my Spiritual Diaries that go out across the word on the
internet, that He would use them to bring glory to His Son.
Answer to
yesterday’s Bible question: “Bathsheba”
(1 Kings 1:11-21).
Today’s Bible
question: “Which book reveals the family
of Judah through which the Messiah would come?”
Answer in our
next SD.
10/9/2018 10:58
AM
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